You have met some ****ed up people then. I consider anyone who uses the word not intelligent enough to have a valid political opinion anyway, so I drop all generalizations about conservatives and liberals and just feel grateful I was blessed with a functioning brain when I meet them.
You don't give enough credit to people, most Americans wouldn't call you a f@g. Also, if you look at who's trying to support your rights for marriage, you'll see that liberals are the majority by far. So please don't place yourself at the center and fault everyone else when you're the one using your gayness as an excuse to place labels on people.
It's true, Jallman.
Whatever their shortcomings, liberals are your only hope; and mine.
Liberals can be unwittingly offensive in their judgements; the difference is, with liberals it usually
is unwitting, unlike conservatives, whose offensiveness is often deliberate.
Liberals are also usually quick to apologize for their offensiveness, once it is brought to their attention; educated about how a particular derogatory term, epithet, or stereotype is objectionable, hurtful, unfair, or inaccurate, they are often quick to change their ways, as they do not like to think of themselves as being any of these things. Again, unlike conservatives, who often pride themselves on it.
Liberals in general, at least liberals of a certain class, are not overly enthusiastic about teen moms, at least in the abstract.
Thirtyish women with nearly grown children are not their favorites, either.
Their assessments, their preconceptions, their
stereotypes about this sort of person can often border on condescending.
But nevertheless, my hope lies with them, not with conservatives who alternately place teen moms on a pedestal for selflessly "choosing life" and deride them for being ignorant sluts, welfare scum, and worthless burdens on society.
Liberals at least acknowledge that women are human, and equal, and deserve the same rights as anyone.
Conservatives
don't, and the world is not safe for fence-sitters.
I choose to ally myself with the side that believes I'm human, even if they think I'm not the best, the most valuable, the most
useful and worthwhile kind of human; not as good as, say, a woman who has her first child through IVF at age 45.
You might find this too, eventually.
You need allies-
we all do- and as objectionable as liberals might be, they are the ones who believe you as a gay man are human, equal, and deserving of the same rights as everybody else. Not conservatives.
And if you tell liberals they've offended you, they'll more than likely be sorry. And if you explain to them how, specifically, they have offended you, they will more than likely take steps to avoid doing so in the future, and insist that everyone else avoid it, too... thus further outraging conservatives, who abhor anything that smacks of "political correctness".